stevens@teklabs.UUCP (08/04/83)
A couple of forgotten Boston Driving rules: 1. Never attempt to drive with a Denver boot on your car. 2. Blinking red means look both ways before you speed through Blinking yellow means the same as a steady green. Blinking green -- Waste of electricity 3. Expect to drive around a rotary 9 or 10 times before you can get off. 4. Yield to no one EXCEPT the T. The T has been known to hit 4 or 5 cars on an average day. 5. Anticipate events. Boston University graduation usually falls on the same day as a Breakers game, Red Sox game, and Boston Marathon. Steve Silberberg
goutal@decvax.UUCP (Kenneth G. "Kenn" Goutal) (08/07/83)
As for the interpretation of Blinking Green, it is worth noting that it is totally undefined by the laws and regulations of the Commonwealth, whereas Blinking Red and Blinking Yellow are indeed defined legally. (Turns out that the two are not particularly different, by the bye; also, yes, the legal definitions are not the same as the commonly- accepted definitions in Boston. :-> ) -- Kenn (decvax!goutal)
notes@CSvax:Pucc-H:pur-phy.UUCP (08/08/83)
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pur-phy!crl Aug 8 11:47:00 1983
>From reading a Massachusetts Driver's Ed manual, I thought that a blinking
green was defined--it signified a light whose only purpose was as a
pedestrian crossing light. I guess this was before the "walk/don't walk"
lights were prevalent. The crossing signal also had something to do
with both the red and yellow lights being on at the same time. I've
even seen this behavior in Worcester as recent as a few years ago. Being
from Connecticut, I was initially very puzzled by the flashing green
lights around Lincoln square.
Charles LaBrec
pur-ee!Physics:crl
purdue!Physics:crlignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (08/09/83)
Ah, yes. Boston in the summer...I had the opportunity to attend the World Science Fiction convention in Boston a couple of years ago. I drove. My overwhelming impression of Boston streets could be expressed by taking a box of spaghetti and marking one way arrows on every piece (some starting in the middle and going both ways, e.g., <- ->; I swear that some *MUST* have been -><-, too!). Also, that the airport is on the isle of Avalon, because I couldn't get there the same way any two days in a row. And I never ran into so many people who considered it important that your forefathers immigrated on a wooden boat instead of a steel one... But there is one redeeming feature of Boston. The seafood. I'll never be able to scuba in New England waters after that trip; the lobsters must know about me, and they'll get me if I let them... As for Denver Boots...if any SOB puts one on my car, he/she had better be ready to lose it. If I have to, I'll buy an oxy/acetylene torch to cut the damn thing off. I can't bomb towing companies (and I'd love to--anyone from Chicago knows that Steve Goodman had it right with "Lincoln Park Pirates"), but putting those damn things on my car--whether I owe parking tickets or not (the big issue in Chi town now; and no, I owe no tickets, nor am I likely to be a Boot recipient unless its a mistake)--is a violation of my property. Dave Ihnat ihuxx!ignatz